Oklahoma Amish

Maybe more than any other Amish place name, I’ve never had a clue how to pronounce “Chouteau” (Chah-toe? Shoh-two? Choo-tee-ow? 🙂 ). Lucky for me, this is a blog, not a podcast. Why am I pondering pronunciation quirks again? Well, our busy contributor Tom Geist checks in today with a visit to the Chouteau, Oklahoma Amish settlement. […]

Oklahoma! It just rolls off your tongue, doesn’t it? It’s probably my favorite state name, outside of Mississippi, of course. Oklahoma is hardly full of Amish. But, it does have a couple of settlements, including the 100-year-old community at Chouteau. Oklahoma’s two Amish communities are unlike most others, for one key reason. You can read […]

The Great Plains have long attracted Amish settlement. However, Amish populations in most Great Plains states, such as Oklahoma and Montana, remain low. Kansas holds to this pattern; despite a history of Amish settlement stretching back 140 years, the Sunflower State is today home to only about a dozen church districts. There are some interesting […]

Ice storms thrashed the country last week. Oklahoma was especially hard-hit. An article (no longer online) in the Tulsa World explains how the area’s Amish and non-Amish have handled it. A local English man, suffering through an extended power outage, told an Amish compatriot that ‘we’re living like you are now.’ The Amish haven’t felt […]